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Chicago examiner vol xiv no 48 a m wednesday Chicago february 16 1916 wednesday o.jf&some price one cent ta 2ss n4 sscts b president assailed by root for notes america blindly stumbling along the road that continued will lead to war he says at republican convention _ whitman wages losing fight with state organization in ef fort to get official indorse ment of his administration new york feb 16 â€” in a speech bristling with withering refer ence to the diplomacy of the wilson administration and branding the government as brave in words and irresolute in action elihu root last night declared in opening the republican state convention that america has been blindly stumbling along the road that continued will lead to war assails wilson and democrats he bitterly assailed president wil son and the democratic party his speech transcended in interest even the bitter war between governor whitman and the republican state organization the convention was a series of vio lent skirmishes between the whit man and barnes factions the fight ing centered on the election of dele gates-at-large to the republican na tional convention and on an indorse ment of governor whitman's admin istration seen as motif of anti-wilson campaign carnegie hall held 200 more than its seating capacity when former senator root as temporary chair man of the convention took up his attack on president wilson and the democratic party his speech had been discussed with so many of the national leaders of his party before it was delivered that it can be said it will become the motif of the anti-wilson cam paign his views were ratified with acclaim by the audience which in cluded state and national leaders the greatest demonstration came when mr root referred to the fail ure of the american government to assert itself at the time belgium was invaded belgian invasion contract breach the law protecting belgium which was violated said senator root was our law and the law of every other civilized country for genera tions we had been urging on and helping in its development and es tablishment the invasion of bel gium was a breach of contract with us for the maintenance of a law of nations which was protection of our peace there were thundering cheers when after reading the strict ac countability note which was sent be fore the lusitania episode he said ' no man should draw a pistol who ' does not shoot the government ' which shakes its fist first and its i finger afterward fulls into contempt i our diplomacy has lost its authority i and influence because we have been i brave in words and irresolute in ao < tion ! senator root's denunciation of the i mexican policy of president wilson ! was even more severe than his cen < sure of the policy maintained toward < the european belligerents he said ' the expedition to vera cruz was to ' overthrow huerta and not to protect ! american lives 1 tt 2 o'clock this morning with i committees still in session there i were indications that whitman j would win a partial victory in the j election of dr david jayne hill as a j member of the big four the \ barnes candidate is william green ? governor whitman senator wade ( . â€” â€” . . 35 are missing three steamships burn in fire at brooklyn pier loss is estimated at 1,000,000 vessel loaded with war supplies for russia by international news service new york feb 15 â€” thirty-five persons are missing and three steam ships were destroyed in a fire which started on a pair in brooklyn about 2 o'clock this morning the police say that the fire was of incendiary origin the loss is estimated at 1,000,000 the fire started on a pier which stored barrels of oil and bales of cotton there was a series of explosions and soon the pier was blazing from end to end the steamships bolton castle 12 000 tons and the pacific castle 10 000 tons were tied to the pier load ing oil and cotton for the russian government the bolton castle caught fire first and in a few minutes was ablaze from stem to stern the flames then spread to the pacific castle thirty-five new york central floats loaded with oil and cotton were moored alongside the steamships and they took fire practically all were destroyed hundreds of negroes were engaged in the work of transferring the oil and cotton from the floats and from the pier onto the two vessels others were asleep on the ships when the fire was discovered there was no way of rescuing them because of the intense heat and the dense smoke the firemen were prvented from approaching close to the blaze from the shore fireman o'hara saved the lives of twenty-five seamen and collies they had been trapped in the pacific castle they had taken refuge on the bridge and were crying for aid when the firemen arrived o'hara hurled them a heavy rope b means of which they slid to a float business section of fall river burns by international news service fall river mass feb 16 â€” fire which attacked the business district of fall river shortly before 1 o'clock this morning within an hour had de stroyed fifteen blocks in the principal commercial section of the city . , fifty large buildings had been destroyed before the flames were under control the loss is 51,500,000 dynamite was freely used to block the progress of the fire mayor james kay is considering i calling out the militia slain actress had brother in aurora sari petras the hungarian actress who was shot as a spy after being convicted of using her beauty to lure military information from teutonic officials for the use of the british is the sister of anthony petras who in 1914 was found not guilty of murder ing theresa hollander in st nicho las cemetery in aurora frequently during the trial it was said that petras sister a noted comedy star would come to this country to aid in his defense mrs vosbrink hurt in auto accident mrs george p vosbrink member of the board of education will be confined to her bed for some time it was said yesterday as the result of an accident on monday mrs vosbrink and her sister were riding in an auto mobile when it struck a rut in the pavement throwing mrs vosbrink to the floor of the car her spine was hurt and she suffered internal injur ies british take securities in u.s mail by b c forbes storm of protest aroused among new york bankers by seiz ures of bonds from holland millions detained subject to prize court because papers originated in enemy country new york feb 15 the british government has seized millions of dollars of american securities dis patched from holland to the united states american financiers are in censed protests and appeals are being sent to the state department immediate and effective action is demanded ~~ the extent of the seizures cannot be computed as the british censor does not tell what securities have been taken all the information received by american bankers whose mail has been opened and interfered with is i contained in this typewritten note in serted in the envelopes a part of the securities originally contained in this packet is detained by his britannic majesty's govern ment for adjudication in a prize court on the ground of enemy origin leaves bankers in dark this leaves the bankers here com pletely in the dark endless confu sion they declare must result it has been common knowledge that securities bearing the german stamp have been coming upon the new york market from time to time ever since the war began these securities have usually come through amsterdam and have been forwarded on dutch steam ers to seize first-class american mail consigned from one neutral port to another is an outrage angrily pro tested one international banker to day the action of the british govern ment came without warning bankers complain heretofore no seizures have been reported seizures are defended friends of the allies point out that britain and france made the an nouncement long ago that no exports of any nature whatsoever would be permitted from germany or austria unless specifically sanctioned by the allies it is argued that investments constitute the most valuable class of exports since they can be so readily turned into money here and the funds used to swell germany's credit and buttress her international exchange rates congress refuses to consider suffrage by international news service washington feb 15 the death knell of nationwide woman suffrage legislation at the present session of congress was sounded to-day when the house judiciary committee voted to postpone action on the suffrage constitutional amendment until de cember 14 col house to see king george again by international news service london feb 15 â€” colonel e m house is again to have an audience with king george at buckingham palace president wilson's envoy has received an invitation from the king's secretary it was reliably re ported to-day and is to make the visit on friday germans hurl back british line london admits 600-yard loss at ypres berlin announces capture of half-mile front terrific battle still rages in champagne the french shell lost trenches in alsace by international news service london feb 15 â€” the germans have broken through the british front on the ypres salient in flanders cap turing from 600 to 800 yards of front line trenches the shattering of the heretofore impregnable british stronghold fol lowed an exceedingly heavy bom â– rbardment by artillery and wrecking of the approaches to the works by mining operations the berlin report which places the gain at 800 yards of trench states that a large part of the british occu pants of the trenches were made prisoners the british commander's report states that but 600 yards of trench were lost fighting still continues in champagne the struggle of the germans and french to recover ground lost by each east and west of butte du mesnil continues the fight ing is mainly by artillery one at tack by french infantry against the newly gained german positions north west of tahure was repulsed accord ing to the berlin statement fighting in upper alsace for the position east of seppois to-day was limited to an artillery engagement the french batteries heavily shelled the positions captured recapuy by tfii germans who made vigorous reply french report calm the statement follows the day was comparatively calm in artois we shelled the german or ganizations on the edge of the road from lille west of the oise we bombarded a train and supply convoy in ttie empagjiy railway station we poured a destructive fire on the ger man works northeast of soissons in the argonne at la fille morte we exploded a mine and occupied the crater in upper alsace to-day our artil lery kept the german positions east of seppois under its fire the belgian official statement says in reprisal for recent bombard ments by german aeroplanes one of our air squadrons last night success fully dropped sixteen heavy projec tiles on the aerodrome at handzae mel 800-meter front taken the berlin statement says after good preparation by artillery and mine throwers we took about 800 meters of english positions southeast of ypres a large portion of the oc cupants including one officer and dozens of soldiers were taken pris oners south of the somme the french made fruitless hand grenade attacks with continuous artillery fighting in champagne after strong artil lery preparation a weak attack against our new positions northwest of tahure was repulsed slap in ballroom leads to challenge by international news service south norwalk conn feb 15 â€” the likelihood of a real duel with swords has norwalk society excited harry w earle grandson of the late william h earle new york million ai'"e and john frizzell of new or leans had a dispute on the ballroom floor at the norwalk country club on saturday night frizzell slapped earle saying he had insulted south ern chivalry in not excusing himself in leaving frizzell's lady friend earle selected porter emerson brown the playwright and frizzell his brother duncan as seconds to-day formal challenges to a duel with swords were passed between the young men ottawa fire caused by plot says chief by international news service ottawa feb 15 â€” fire chief gra ham this afternoon testified before the royal commission investigating the parliament buildings fire that he believed the fire was the work of incendiaries he said he heard five distinct explosions a government chemist after treating a newspaper with a chemical placed a cigaret butt r>n it eighteen minutes later itjtarst into flames frank glass m llfek i the start of the parliament f"fl tries to visit hubby's office and finds she is wife no 2 woman accuses carl simmons of hiding dual life for months held as bigamist carl l simmons is in a cell at the clark street station charged with having more wives than the law allows for two months it is said simmons had skillfully hidden tre fact that he had two wives so carefully did he manage his out of town trips for the booth fisheries company where he had been employed that neither of his wives became aware of the other's existnee then one day wife no 2 to whom he was married in december 1915 thought she would go to his office to see him she approached the office boy said that she was mrs simmons and wanted to see her husband of course the boy thought she was jesting he told her so but she was insistent this was the story told to the police by alexander anderson of bloomington 111 father of wife no 2 who swore to a warrant charging simmons with bigamy detectives arrested simmons who refused to comment on his arrest except to say that everything would come out in court this morning the police were told that wife no 1 whoiwas married to simmons in 1913 lived with simmons mother at 2720 florence avenue and that wife no 2 and simmons lived at 900 wind sor avenue simmons according to frank strat ton a parole agent was recently pa roled from joliet penitentiary drug crazed bandit slain in gun fight bv international news service los an(?k*es cal feb 15 four minutes after he held up and robbed e a henderson at the university pharmacy 3600 university avenue to night gerhart kisters former ger man soldier and drug user was cor nered and killed by five policemen after he had fired three shots at them kisters had taken fifty-three grains of morphine and thirty-eight grains of cocaine from henderson's safe and was at the cash register when a passing pedestrian saw what was going on and telephoned the po lice tries to cash check as son of harrison wiggins isn't much of a name to bank on therefore when young mr carter wiggins went into the ger mania savings bank in memphis terin to cash a 75 check yesterday he gave the name of carter h har rison jr and said he was from Chicago the name was all right but the bank did some telegraphing by way of precaution and then mr wiggins was arrested in his room at the chisca hotel detectives found a bundle of checks which if worth anything would be worth 42 936.18 patients roused by fire near hospital patients at the mary thompson hospital were aroused early this morning when fire attacked a two story building at 1713 west adams street nearby nurses discovered the fire in a tailoring shop on the first floor operated by harry port he his wife and three children and charles kingos his wife and infant son who reside on the second floor were driven to the street in their night clothes thousand see juarez plotters executed by international news service el paso texas feb 15 â€” what is believed to have been a plot to rob the juarez garrison of its ammuni tion and render it an easy victim to attack was averted by the public ex ecution at noon to-day of three mex icans convicted of stealing ammuni tion the execution was witnessed by 1,000 persons including many women and children new scholarship for university of c announcement was made at the university of Chicago laÃŸt night of a gift by mr and mrs j l rosen berger graduates of the class of 82 the gift the fourth to be made by mr and mr rosenberger is in the form of a scholarship to be awarded to a student or students for excel e in scholarship it is called thei scholarehin j mayor's new m.v.l termed a fraud reply to efforts of thompson to appropriate title of municipal voters league is calling the men political counterfeiters organization not fair to pres ent city administration says mayor deplores its fail ure to tell the truth if mayor thompson's effort to ap propriate the title of the municipal voters league scared anybody it was not the municipal voters league the springfield proceedings only moved the league's officers to face titiousness not to say levity also it inspired them to turn loose a kick back of several horsepower in which it alluded to certain persons at the city hall as a gang of political counterfeiters in a statement issued last night the executive committee regrets its in ability at this time to accompany its warning against the counter feiters with bertillon measurements concerning the members of the mayor's league the statement says a careful search of the hotels in the vicinity of the city hall will doubt less reveal them see fight ahead the statement signed by president f b johnstone and secretary wil liam d bang3 followed a declaration by the mayor that he intended to see that the league was replaced by one not given to falsehoods no mention is made of the league's attitude toward the mandamus suit brought at springfield to compel the secretary of state to issue a charter for a municipal voters league but the action probably will be fought pending its outcome the city hall's emissaries have obtained a charter for the Chicago municipal voters league it is that action which is given the caustic in the municipal voters league statement which fol lows the municipal voters league wishes to warn the public against the operations of a gang of political counterfeiters who have been un earthed in the city hall and who are making active preparations to shove the queer it is thought that the departure of sherlock holmes from the city has encouraged this activity and it is suspected by some that professor mo riarity is a member of this band tell of alleged plan the boldness of this gang is so great that they have it is said se cured a state charter under the name of Chicago municipal voters league and it seems impossible that they can long hope to escape detec tion their plan appears to be to issue reports on aldermanic candidates which shall bear a label including the words municipal voters league unsuspecting voters might naturally accept these as genuine municipal voters league reports no one counterfeits confederate money it is because the reports of the municipal voters league pass current in this community that such counterfeiting looks like a profitable enterprise the counterfeiter tries to make his stuff look like real money and the political counterfeiter does the same imitation is the sincerest flattery and possibly the municipal voters league should feel pleased tell of identities we regret that we cannot at this time furnish the public with bertillon measurements we can however give some description of these mem bers whose identity has been betrayed by the application for state incor poration papers foremost stands major clinnin in private life a lawyer and in public life an assistant corporation counsel the major has been devoting consid erable time to the rather complicated matter of getting the new organiza tion incorporated the press states that this has forced him to spend more or less time in springfield it is to be hoped that the public busi boys set fire to school that the kids may get vacation two cents milk bottle and kero sene put 1,600 in peril at irving institution in a back row of seats at the irving school yesterday two boys conspired got any money whispered john quirk fifteen years old sure â€” a cent said henry hun zinga whose years are thirteen come on â€” sneak commanded john a few minutes later the boys ap peared at a grocery store they had an empty milk bottle and a joint capi tal of two cents they bought kero sene sixteen hundred children are en rolled as pupils at the irving school the classrooms yesterday practically were filled to capacity and the afternoon session was about half over when charles driscoll the school engineer smelled smoke he rushed into the auditorium where he found the curtain and part of the stage in flames seizing a hand pump he worked frantically and managed to extinguish the fire with out alarming the pupils then the police were gent for and they smelled kerosene an amateur job commented ser geant o'hara any boys missing the principal john w troeger : learned that john and henry had i been absent from their classroom when the fire started the boys were found and they smelled of kerosene why did you do it demanded sergeant o'hara we just wanted to give all the kids a vacation said john and we wanted a vacation our selves added henry the juvenile court will deal with them u.s demands proof of carranza plot charge by international news service washington feb 15.â€”informa tion concerning an alleged plot to blow up the united states battleship kentucky at vera cruz mexico was laid before the state and navy de partments to-day by carranza repre sentatives here the plot was hatched by those favoring intervention in mexico according to the information which seeks also to involve consul canada at vera cruz the carranza officials who brought the information were asked immediately to support it with affidavits or withdraw it gov dunne in buffalo urges preparedness by international news service buffalo feb 15 â€” the regular army of the united states should be increased to 150,000 or 175,000 there should be a material increase in the navy and a trained citizen soldiery of at least 500,000 men said gov ernor dunne of Illinois upon his ar rival in buffalo to-day governor dunne was the principal speaker at the annual lincoln dinner of the men's club of annunciation parish this evening silent smith niece to become a bride mrs edna farr fox widow of clif ton arey fox writer and daughter of william m farr formerly mayor of kenosha and a niece and heiress of silent smith will be married in a few days at clovis n m to william t marx formerly cashier of the postal savings bank of kenosha the farrs have lived in new mexico for some time mr marx left yesterday to join them 21 killed in butte copper mine fire by international news service butte feb 15 twenty-one dead and missing sums up the extent of the fire that started in the depths of the pennsylvania mine one of the properties of the anaconda copper mining company last night nine bodies have been recovered no hope is entertained for the missing u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity fair wedneaday and thursday moderate temperature moderate southwetit winds teperature for twenty-four hours ending at 2 a m : hlsheat sum icwreat so mean 27 normal temperature for the day 85 excess of temperature since january 1 78 de grees l"recipitation for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m none excess since january 1 2 l inches relatite humidity 7 a m 72 2 p m , 69 7 p m 63 barom trie pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.40 7 p m 80.81 sunr'se to-day 6:45 sunset 5:24 morn sets 6 a m thursday t'omplets goremmant iÂ«Â»ht on pagf 6 crones hiding in Chicago say police detectives search every known haunt of anarchists in ef fort to capture suspected poisoner of banquet soup woman friend of allegrini roommate of fugitive is or dered arrested as are two correspondents in vermont acting on positive information that jean crones who is al leged to have placed arsenic in the soup served at the recent ban quet tendered archbishop mundeleic is in Chicago first deputy schuet tler and captain hunt of the detec tive bureau last night threw every available man into the search for the . fugitive every known haunt of ( crones was visited and the several italian colonies in and about the city were searched by men acquainted with the several localities certain crones is in Chicago says hunt ' jean crones is in Chicago this assertion was made by captain huilv last night despite the receipt of tele / grams from minneapolis piqua ohk milwaukee and other cities advising him that individuals suspected of being crones were either under ar rest or under observation in the several cities i am not prepared to state the source of my information said the captain but it is reliable i cannot say that we will arrest him immedi ately because we are not positive as to his present hiding place but we are certain he is in Chicago and will not leave believed hiding in south Chicago lafare champagne a bellboy at the tfniverstty club was arrested and taken before captain coiiint last night he stated he had seen crones board an indiana avenue car at twen ty-fifth street last thursday after noon he seemed greatly excited over something said champagne and said he expected to go away captain collins later asserted he had positive knowledge that crones boarded a train late that night he refused to state the name of the road but said the train le.'t ai 9 o'clock it is thought that crones da tination was south Chicago j bomb designer arrested in piqua o marco bonino a suspect arrested in milwaukee yesterday was released after the police there had determined he had no knowledge of the Chicago plot j baptist serafina of piqua ohj^fl was arrested by the police of 4q city after he had caused a disturo ance by discharging a revolver in his room was found a collection of anarchistic literature plans for dyn amite bombs and firearms which was nearly as comprehensive as that found in crones rooms in calumet avenue friends of serafina say that for the last week he has been acta^^j strangely the piqua police b^fl his outbreak due to a temporaj tal aberration it is thought that serafinlhy â– %'" follalidini whose name is^b to a number of the letters fou^h the possession of allegrini in cago serafina admitted he had hfl in Chicago from thanksgiving untl christmas a trunk found in his roi^h was carefully packed and the susp^h admitted he planned to leave i^^h but refused to diselo^^^aj tion deposits aud|^h9n dreds of dollars ifl . withdrawn from fjfl afina he is a meh y m c a like b stoneputter ih the fact that the cy cc-i.clnued on 7th page 4th column continued on 7th page 2d column i i 1 â– - w\t aladdin's lamp scarcely possessed more magic than examiner barter and ex change ads in changing the things you don't want into the hi i things you do â€” or turning them into ready cash v^^r^p y homelikeÃŸaonis jp j p>irÃŸent o^ijn grand blvd 5520 3rd apt beautiful fur â€¢ '' jt rushed room or suite facing bird private bath baenelors exclusive apt no other roomers exc + transp ; references north jk^^r vou young men who have come to Chicago to make places for yourselves in the business world want to live where you can really feel at home after the day's work you must have a cheery comfortable room in which to rest and plan the inviting room described above is only one of the many offered in the rooms to rent columns : i the want ad section of the Chicago examiner the newspaper of the home i finals 1 1 edition 1

Chicago examiner vol xiv no 48 a m wednesday Chicago february 16 1916 wednesday o.jf&some price one cent ta 2ss n4 sscts b president assailed by root for notes america blindly stumbling along the road that continued will lead to war he says at republican convention _ whitman wages losing fight with state organization in ef fort to get official indorse ment of his administration new york feb 16 â€” in a speech bristling with withering refer ence to the diplomacy of the wilson administration and branding the government as brave in words and irresolute in action elihu root last night declared in opening the republican state convention that america has been blindly stumbling along the road that continued will lead to war assails wilson and democrats he bitterly assailed president wil son and the democratic party his speech transcended in interest even the bitter war between governor whitman and the republican state organization the convention was a series of vio lent skirmishes between the whit man and barnes factions the fight ing centered on the election of dele gates-at-large to the republican na tional convention and on an indorse ment of governor whitman's admin istration seen as motif of anti-wilson campaign carnegie hall held 200 more than its seating capacity when former senator root as temporary chair man of the convention took up his attack on president wilson and the democratic party his speech had been discussed with so many of the national leaders of his party before it was delivered that it can be said it will become the motif of the anti-wilson cam paign his views were ratified with acclaim by the audience which in cluded state and national leaders the greatest demonstration came when mr root referred to the fail ure of the american government to assert itself at the time belgium was invaded belgian invasion contract breach the law protecting belgium which was violated said senator root was our law and the law of every other civilized country for genera tions we had been urging on and helping in its development and es tablishment the invasion of bel gium was a breach of contract with us for the maintenance of a law of nations which was protection of our peace there were thundering cheers when after reading the strict ac countability note which was sent be fore the lusitania episode he said ' no man should draw a pistol who ' does not shoot the government ' which shakes its fist first and its i finger afterward fulls into contempt i our diplomacy has lost its authority i and influence because we have been i brave in words and irresolute in ao < tion ! senator root's denunciation of the i mexican policy of president wilson ! was even more severe than his cen < sure of the policy maintained toward < the european belligerents he said ' the expedition to vera cruz was to ' overthrow huerta and not to protect ! american lives 1 tt 2 o'clock this morning with i committees still in session there i were indications that whitman j would win a partial victory in the j election of dr david jayne hill as a j member of the big four the \ barnes candidate is william green ? governor whitman senator wade ( . â€” â€” . . 35 are missing three steamships burn in fire at brooklyn pier loss is estimated at 1,000,000 vessel loaded with war supplies for russia by international news service new york feb 15 â€” thirty-five persons are missing and three steam ships were destroyed in a fire which started on a pair in brooklyn about 2 o'clock this morning the police say that the fire was of incendiary origin the loss is estimated at 1,000,000 the fire started on a pier which stored barrels of oil and bales of cotton there was a series of explosions and soon the pier was blazing from end to end the steamships bolton castle 12 000 tons and the pacific castle 10 000 tons were tied to the pier load ing oil and cotton for the russian government the bolton castle caught fire first and in a few minutes was ablaze from stem to stern the flames then spread to the pacific castle thirty-five new york central floats loaded with oil and cotton were moored alongside the steamships and they took fire practically all were destroyed hundreds of negroes were engaged in the work of transferring the oil and cotton from the floats and from the pier onto the two vessels others were asleep on the ships when the fire was discovered there was no way of rescuing them because of the intense heat and the dense smoke the firemen were prvented from approaching close to the blaze from the shore fireman o'hara saved the lives of twenty-five seamen and collies they had been trapped in the pacific castle they had taken refuge on the bridge and were crying for aid when the firemen arrived o'hara hurled them a heavy rope b means of which they slid to a float business section of fall river burns by international news service fall river mass feb 16 â€” fire which attacked the business district of fall river shortly before 1 o'clock this morning within an hour had de stroyed fifteen blocks in the principal commercial section of the city . , fifty large buildings had been destroyed before the flames were under control the loss is 51,500,000 dynamite was freely used to block the progress of the fire mayor james kay is considering i calling out the militia slain actress had brother in aurora sari petras the hungarian actress who was shot as a spy after being convicted of using her beauty to lure military information from teutonic officials for the use of the british is the sister of anthony petras who in 1914 was found not guilty of murder ing theresa hollander in st nicho las cemetery in aurora frequently during the trial it was said that petras sister a noted comedy star would come to this country to aid in his defense mrs vosbrink hurt in auto accident mrs george p vosbrink member of the board of education will be confined to her bed for some time it was said yesterday as the result of an accident on monday mrs vosbrink and her sister were riding in an auto mobile when it struck a rut in the pavement throwing mrs vosbrink to the floor of the car her spine was hurt and she suffered internal injur ies british take securities in u.s mail by b c forbes storm of protest aroused among new york bankers by seiz ures of bonds from holland millions detained subject to prize court because papers originated in enemy country new york feb 15 the british government has seized millions of dollars of american securities dis patched from holland to the united states american financiers are in censed protests and appeals are being sent to the state department immediate and effective action is demanded ~~ the extent of the seizures cannot be computed as the british censor does not tell what securities have been taken all the information received by american bankers whose mail has been opened and interfered with is i contained in this typewritten note in serted in the envelopes a part of the securities originally contained in this packet is detained by his britannic majesty's govern ment for adjudication in a prize court on the ground of enemy origin leaves bankers in dark this leaves the bankers here com pletely in the dark endless confu sion they declare must result it has been common knowledge that securities bearing the german stamp have been coming upon the new york market from time to time ever since the war began these securities have usually come through amsterdam and have been forwarded on dutch steam ers to seize first-class american mail consigned from one neutral port to another is an outrage angrily pro tested one international banker to day the action of the british govern ment came without warning bankers complain heretofore no seizures have been reported seizures are defended friends of the allies point out that britain and france made the an nouncement long ago that no exports of any nature whatsoever would be permitted from germany or austria unless specifically sanctioned by the allies it is argued that investments constitute the most valuable class of exports since they can be so readily turned into money here and the funds used to swell germany's credit and buttress her international exchange rates congress refuses to consider suffrage by international news service washington feb 15 the death knell of nationwide woman suffrage legislation at the present session of congress was sounded to-day when the house judiciary committee voted to postpone action on the suffrage constitutional amendment until de cember 14 col house to see king george again by international news service london feb 15 â€” colonel e m house is again to have an audience with king george at buckingham palace president wilson's envoy has received an invitation from the king's secretary it was reliably re ported to-day and is to make the visit on friday germans hurl back british line london admits 600-yard loss at ypres berlin announces capture of half-mile front terrific battle still rages in champagne the french shell lost trenches in alsace by international news service london feb 15 â€” the germans have broken through the british front on the ypres salient in flanders cap turing from 600 to 800 yards of front line trenches the shattering of the heretofore impregnable british stronghold fol lowed an exceedingly heavy bom â– rbardment by artillery and wrecking of the approaches to the works by mining operations the berlin report which places the gain at 800 yards of trench states that a large part of the british occu pants of the trenches were made prisoners the british commander's report states that but 600 yards of trench were lost fighting still continues in champagne the struggle of the germans and french to recover ground lost by each east and west of butte du mesnil continues the fight ing is mainly by artillery one at tack by french infantry against the newly gained german positions north west of tahure was repulsed accord ing to the berlin statement fighting in upper alsace for the position east of seppois to-day was limited to an artillery engagement the french batteries heavily shelled the positions captured recapuy by tfii germans who made vigorous reply french report calm the statement follows the day was comparatively calm in artois we shelled the german or ganizations on the edge of the road from lille west of the oise we bombarded a train and supply convoy in ttie empagjiy railway station we poured a destructive fire on the ger man works northeast of soissons in the argonne at la fille morte we exploded a mine and occupied the crater in upper alsace to-day our artil lery kept the german positions east of seppois under its fire the belgian official statement says in reprisal for recent bombard ments by german aeroplanes one of our air squadrons last night success fully dropped sixteen heavy projec tiles on the aerodrome at handzae mel 800-meter front taken the berlin statement says after good preparation by artillery and mine throwers we took about 800 meters of english positions southeast of ypres a large portion of the oc cupants including one officer and dozens of soldiers were taken pris oners south of the somme the french made fruitless hand grenade attacks with continuous artillery fighting in champagne after strong artil lery preparation a weak attack against our new positions northwest of tahure was repulsed slap in ballroom leads to challenge by international news service south norwalk conn feb 15 â€” the likelihood of a real duel with swords has norwalk society excited harry w earle grandson of the late william h earle new york million ai'"e and john frizzell of new or leans had a dispute on the ballroom floor at the norwalk country club on saturday night frizzell slapped earle saying he had insulted south ern chivalry in not excusing himself in leaving frizzell's lady friend earle selected porter emerson brown the playwright and frizzell his brother duncan as seconds to-day formal challenges to a duel with swords were passed between the young men ottawa fire caused by plot says chief by international news service ottawa feb 15 â€” fire chief gra ham this afternoon testified before the royal commission investigating the parliament buildings fire that he believed the fire was the work of incendiaries he said he heard five distinct explosions a government chemist after treating a newspaper with a chemical placed a cigaret butt r>n it eighteen minutes later itjtarst into flames frank glass m llfek i the start of the parliament f"fl tries to visit hubby's office and finds she is wife no 2 woman accuses carl simmons of hiding dual life for months held as bigamist carl l simmons is in a cell at the clark street station charged with having more wives than the law allows for two months it is said simmons had skillfully hidden tre fact that he had two wives so carefully did he manage his out of town trips for the booth fisheries company where he had been employed that neither of his wives became aware of the other's existnee then one day wife no 2 to whom he was married in december 1915 thought she would go to his office to see him she approached the office boy said that she was mrs simmons and wanted to see her husband of course the boy thought she was jesting he told her so but she was insistent this was the story told to the police by alexander anderson of bloomington 111 father of wife no 2 who swore to a warrant charging simmons with bigamy detectives arrested simmons who refused to comment on his arrest except to say that everything would come out in court this morning the police were told that wife no 1 whoiwas married to simmons in 1913 lived with simmons mother at 2720 florence avenue and that wife no 2 and simmons lived at 900 wind sor avenue simmons according to frank strat ton a parole agent was recently pa roled from joliet penitentiary drug crazed bandit slain in gun fight bv international news service los an(?k*es cal feb 15 four minutes after he held up and robbed e a henderson at the university pharmacy 3600 university avenue to night gerhart kisters former ger man soldier and drug user was cor nered and killed by five policemen after he had fired three shots at them kisters had taken fifty-three grains of morphine and thirty-eight grains of cocaine from henderson's safe and was at the cash register when a passing pedestrian saw what was going on and telephoned the po lice tries to cash check as son of harrison wiggins isn't much of a name to bank on therefore when young mr carter wiggins went into the ger mania savings bank in memphis terin to cash a 75 check yesterday he gave the name of carter h har rison jr and said he was from Chicago the name was all right but the bank did some telegraphing by way of precaution and then mr wiggins was arrested in his room at the chisca hotel detectives found a bundle of checks which if worth anything would be worth 42 936.18 patients roused by fire near hospital patients at the mary thompson hospital were aroused early this morning when fire attacked a two story building at 1713 west adams street nearby nurses discovered the fire in a tailoring shop on the first floor operated by harry port he his wife and three children and charles kingos his wife and infant son who reside on the second floor were driven to the street in their night clothes thousand see juarez plotters executed by international news service el paso texas feb 15 â€” what is believed to have been a plot to rob the juarez garrison of its ammuni tion and render it an easy victim to attack was averted by the public ex ecution at noon to-day of three mex icans convicted of stealing ammuni tion the execution was witnessed by 1,000 persons including many women and children new scholarship for university of c announcement was made at the university of Chicago laÃŸt night of a gift by mr and mrs j l rosen berger graduates of the class of 82 the gift the fourth to be made by mr and mr rosenberger is in the form of a scholarship to be awarded to a student or students for excel e in scholarship it is called thei scholarehin j mayor's new m.v.l termed a fraud reply to efforts of thompson to appropriate title of municipal voters league is calling the men political counterfeiters organization not fair to pres ent city administration says mayor deplores its fail ure to tell the truth if mayor thompson's effort to ap propriate the title of the municipal voters league scared anybody it was not the municipal voters league the springfield proceedings only moved the league's officers to face titiousness not to say levity also it inspired them to turn loose a kick back of several horsepower in which it alluded to certain persons at the city hall as a gang of political counterfeiters in a statement issued last night the executive committee regrets its in ability at this time to accompany its warning against the counter feiters with bertillon measurements concerning the members of the mayor's league the statement says a careful search of the hotels in the vicinity of the city hall will doubt less reveal them see fight ahead the statement signed by president f b johnstone and secretary wil liam d bang3 followed a declaration by the mayor that he intended to see that the league was replaced by one not given to falsehoods no mention is made of the league's attitude toward the mandamus suit brought at springfield to compel the secretary of state to issue a charter for a municipal voters league but the action probably will be fought pending its outcome the city hall's emissaries have obtained a charter for the Chicago municipal voters league it is that action which is given the caustic in the municipal voters league statement which fol lows the municipal voters league wishes to warn the public against the operations of a gang of political counterfeiters who have been un earthed in the city hall and who are making active preparations to shove the queer it is thought that the departure of sherlock holmes from the city has encouraged this activity and it is suspected by some that professor mo riarity is a member of this band tell of alleged plan the boldness of this gang is so great that they have it is said se cured a state charter under the name of Chicago municipal voters league and it seems impossible that they can long hope to escape detec tion their plan appears to be to issue reports on aldermanic candidates which shall bear a label including the words municipal voters league unsuspecting voters might naturally accept these as genuine municipal voters league reports no one counterfeits confederate money it is because the reports of the municipal voters league pass current in this community that such counterfeiting looks like a profitable enterprise the counterfeiter tries to make his stuff look like real money and the political counterfeiter does the same imitation is the sincerest flattery and possibly the municipal voters league should feel pleased tell of identities we regret that we cannot at this time furnish the public with bertillon measurements we can however give some description of these mem bers whose identity has been betrayed by the application for state incor poration papers foremost stands major clinnin in private life a lawyer and in public life an assistant corporation counsel the major has been devoting consid erable time to the rather complicated matter of getting the new organiza tion incorporated the press states that this has forced him to spend more or less time in springfield it is to be hoped that the public busi boys set fire to school that the kids may get vacation two cents milk bottle and kero sene put 1,600 in peril at irving institution in a back row of seats at the irving school yesterday two boys conspired got any money whispered john quirk fifteen years old sure â€” a cent said henry hun zinga whose years are thirteen come on â€” sneak commanded john a few minutes later the boys ap peared at a grocery store they had an empty milk bottle and a joint capi tal of two cents they bought kero sene sixteen hundred children are en rolled as pupils at the irving school the classrooms yesterday practically were filled to capacity and the afternoon session was about half over when charles driscoll the school engineer smelled smoke he rushed into the auditorium where he found the curtain and part of the stage in flames seizing a hand pump he worked frantically and managed to extinguish the fire with out alarming the pupils then the police were gent for and they smelled kerosene an amateur job commented ser geant o'hara any boys missing the principal john w troeger : learned that john and henry had i been absent from their classroom when the fire started the boys were found and they smelled of kerosene why did you do it demanded sergeant o'hara we just wanted to give all the kids a vacation said john and we wanted a vacation our selves added henry the juvenile court will deal with them u.s demands proof of carranza plot charge by international news service washington feb 15.â€”informa tion concerning an alleged plot to blow up the united states battleship kentucky at vera cruz mexico was laid before the state and navy de partments to-day by carranza repre sentatives here the plot was hatched by those favoring intervention in mexico according to the information which seeks also to involve consul canada at vera cruz the carranza officials who brought the information were asked immediately to support it with affidavits or withdraw it gov dunne in buffalo urges preparedness by international news service buffalo feb 15 â€” the regular army of the united states should be increased to 150,000 or 175,000 there should be a material increase in the navy and a trained citizen soldiery of at least 500,000 men said gov ernor dunne of Illinois upon his ar rival in buffalo to-day governor dunne was the principal speaker at the annual lincoln dinner of the men's club of annunciation parish this evening silent smith niece to become a bride mrs edna farr fox widow of clif ton arey fox writer and daughter of william m farr formerly mayor of kenosha and a niece and heiress of silent smith will be married in a few days at clovis n m to william t marx formerly cashier of the postal savings bank of kenosha the farrs have lived in new mexico for some time mr marx left yesterday to join them 21 killed in butte copper mine fire by international news service butte feb 15 twenty-one dead and missing sums up the extent of the fire that started in the depths of the pennsylvania mine one of the properties of the anaconda copper mining company last night nine bodies have been recovered no hope is entertained for the missing u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity fair wedneaday and thursday moderate temperature moderate southwetit winds teperature for twenty-four hours ending at 2 a m : hlsheat sum icwreat so mean 27 normal temperature for the day 85 excess of temperature since january 1 78 de grees l"recipitation for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m none excess since january 1 2 l inches relatite humidity 7 a m 72 2 p m , 69 7 p m 63 barom trie pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.40 7 p m 80.81 sunr'se to-day 6:45 sunset 5:24 morn sets 6 a m thursday t'omplets goremmant iÂ«Â»ht on pagf 6 crones hiding in Chicago say police detectives search every known haunt of anarchists in ef fort to capture suspected poisoner of banquet soup woman friend of allegrini roommate of fugitive is or dered arrested as are two correspondents in vermont acting on positive information that jean crones who is al leged to have placed arsenic in the soup served at the recent ban quet tendered archbishop mundeleic is in Chicago first deputy schuet tler and captain hunt of the detec tive bureau last night threw every available man into the search for the . fugitive every known haunt of ( crones was visited and the several italian colonies in and about the city were searched by men acquainted with the several localities certain crones is in Chicago says hunt ' jean crones is in Chicago this assertion was made by captain huilv last night despite the receipt of tele / grams from minneapolis piqua ohk milwaukee and other cities advising him that individuals suspected of being crones were either under ar rest or under observation in the several cities i am not prepared to state the source of my information said the captain but it is reliable i cannot say that we will arrest him immedi ately because we are not positive as to his present hiding place but we are certain he is in Chicago and will not leave believed hiding in south Chicago lafare champagne a bellboy at the tfniverstty club was arrested and taken before captain coiiint last night he stated he had seen crones board an indiana avenue car at twen ty-fifth street last thursday after noon he seemed greatly excited over something said champagne and said he expected to go away captain collins later asserted he had positive knowledge that crones boarded a train late that night he refused to state the name of the road but said the train le.'t ai 9 o'clock it is thought that crones da tination was south Chicago j bomb designer arrested in piqua o marco bonino a suspect arrested in milwaukee yesterday was released after the police there had determined he had no knowledge of the Chicago plot j baptist serafina of piqua ohj^fl was arrested by the police of 4q city after he had caused a disturo ance by discharging a revolver in his room was found a collection of anarchistic literature plans for dyn amite bombs and firearms which was nearly as comprehensive as that found in crones rooms in calumet avenue friends of serafina say that for the last week he has been acta^^j strangely the piqua police b^fl his outbreak due to a temporaj tal aberration it is thought that serafinlhy â– %'" follalidini whose name is^b to a number of the letters fou^h the possession of allegrini in cago serafina admitted he had hfl in Chicago from thanksgiving untl christmas a trunk found in his roi^h was carefully packed and the susp^h admitted he planned to leave i^^h but refused to diselo^^^aj tion deposits aud|^h9n dreds of dollars ifl . withdrawn from fjfl afina he is a meh y m c a like b stoneputter ih the fact that the cy cc-i.clnued on 7th page 4th column continued on 7th page 2d column i i 1 â– - w\t aladdin's lamp scarcely possessed more magic than examiner barter and ex change ads in changing the things you don't want into the hi i things you do â€” or turning them into ready cash v^^r^p y homelikeÃŸaonis jp j p>irÃŸent o^ijn grand blvd 5520 3rd apt beautiful fur â€¢ '' jt rushed room or suite facing bird private bath baenelors exclusive apt no other roomers exc + transp ; references north jk^^r vou young men who have come to Chicago to make places for yourselves in the business world want to live where you can really feel at home after the day's work you must have a cheery comfortable room in which to rest and plan the inviting room described above is only one of the many offered in the rooms to rent columns : i the want ad section of the Chicago examiner the newspaper of the home i finals 1 1 edition 1